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THURSDAY, NUMMI' 30. 1000.
/011 N W. MEARS, EDITOR.
ASSOCIATED WITH
• ALBERT BARNES, GEORGE DDPFIELD,72.
THOMAS BRAINERD" JOHN ANKINS,
HENRY DARLING. THOMAS J. SHEPHERD,
A NEW -VOLUME
The present number of our paper is the first
of a new volume. Pour years of the history of
the American Presbyterian have trauspired,
and we enter upon the fifth. During this pe
riod we have passed through eventful scenes
both in our church and in the world. The co
lumns of our paper have been freighted with
important chronicles. Our duty as journalists
has not seldom been a serious and trying one.
We have had our part to perform, and our re
sponsibilities to discharge in a period of seces
sion which has divided ns from personal friends
tend esteemed brethren. While we loved them,
adherenceto principle has compelled us to,con
damn and repudiate their coarse. And we
trust that we have somewhat assisted in staying
the tide of defection, and in maintaining the in
tegrity of the church, so dear to us, in this sec
tion of the country. This was almost the first
work we were called to perform. It was done
to the best of our ability; how well and how
wisely, we believe, may be seen in the general
harmony and contentment of the churches in
this whole section, in the present attitude of our
body. We assured them at the time, that the
action of 1857 was not that of extremists; that
our church, though firm, was conservative;
though anti-slavery, as were the father's, it was
not abolitionist; and we are all here together
this day, to rejoice in the truth of these asser
tionsi as witnessed in the action of every Gene
ral Assembly since the secession. The growth
of the Synod of . Pennsylvania in these last four
years, has been greater than that of any Synod
east of the Alleghenies.
It has been our privilege to live in the age
of an unusually glorious revival, one of whose
chief centres was the Jayne's Hall prayer meet
ing in this city. The genuine exhibitions of the
Holy Spirit in this revival, called forth the live
liest sympathies of the editors of this paper,
some of whom, in the providence of God, were
among its most prominent instruments, not only
in the way of making large accessions to their
own churches, but in fostering those outside
union movements for the rescue of.the firemen
and the outcasts of every class. We point to
these facts as the best answer to charges which
have been absurdly made against this paper, of
hostility to the revival. They show more clearly
than words can convey it, the real animus of
the editors, while anything which may have
seemed to bear a contrary construction must, in
all fairness, be construed as a truly Christian
caution against those errors and excesses, and
that danger of pride and exaggeration and
newspaper puffery, which it was not at all won
derful should attach itself to such a wide-spread
popular movement, in this age of the rapid com
munication of intelligence, and the correspond
ing eagerness constantly to hear of some new
and startling thing. •
And now, as we write, we find ourselves still
in the midst of grand and portentous move
ments in the religious, ecclesiastical and poli
tical world. The revival influence is still largely
felt in various parts of Christendom. Every
where, especially in Great Britain and America,
its effects are seen in the increasing attention
given to the organization of the church as a
practical power among men, in the ingenious
and yet simple devices, the product of the high
est zeal and the highest knowledge united, for
reaching the lowest and hitherto most hopeless
strata of civilized society with the benign influ
ences of the gospel, in the widely increased con
sciousness of personal responsibility for the sal
vation of souls among the membership of our
churches, particularly among our young men.
The German mind is rapidly shaking off the in
cubus of a false and pretentious philosophy,
and the evangelical church in that country is
advancing, with rapid strides, to a position
worthy of the original country of the great re
formation. God has wonderfully raised up an
instrument, in the present Napoleon, of break
ing the chains of civil and ecclesiastical despo
tism in the fairest and moat oppressed country
of Europe. At least the origination isdue , to
him of a chain of events, which it afterwards
became practicable for Victor Emmanuel and
Garibaldi to carry out, to such a remarkable and
encouraging degree. The temporal supremacy
of the Pope in Italy, and with it, the disastrous
influence it has exercised upon the human mind
everywhere, seems about drawing to a close.
At home we find our own church on the eve
of a peaceful but important revolution in its
Home Missionary policy. We find it disen
tangling itself from an alliance of long stand
ing and of precious memories, and owing its
origin to the noblest of Christian impulses,
once a necessity and a source of mutual strength
to the parties it embraced, but now, having had
its day, a source of mistrust and mutual injury.
Whatever work a church newspaper can do in
diffusing light, and in leading the membership
to wise, practical, harmonious, and truly Chris
tian conclusions upon great questions, may and
ought to be done now. Here, in this prosper
ous and groWing section of the church, it is felt
that there is need of a journal known to be
thoroughly in sympathy with its spirit and
movements, that these may be fairly argued
and set forilb Oat they may be guarded against
misrepresentations, that our leading enterprises
may be kept prominently before our people
amid the numerous and pressing claims made
by other and really worthy causes, which, other
wise, would prejudice and retard our own; in
fine, that our church may be known for what it
is, and intelligently accepted by still greater
numbers in this middle section of the Atlantic
slope. As to our field in central and western
New York, it has some special sympathies with
us in Philadelphia in these labors, and we con
tinue to receive evidencd of the strong attach
ment of our subscribers there.
Thus then we recommence our labors in this
particular sphere for the cause of the Redeemer.
We shall cordially rejoice to see evidences of
the advancement of that cause wherever they
appear. We shall be the foes of sectarianism
and of exclusiviem as ever. We sh a ll h ave a
friendly look and word for every tree servant of
tits /taverner. But our heart belongs to our
own noble Zion, the American Presbyterian
Church, in which we thank God our lot has
been cast, and we are permitted to be standard
bearers. We thank God we have imbibed the
spirit of 1729, of 1758, and of 1818. We thank
God for the sublime system of doctrine under
which we were reared, which, while it accepts
the infinite mysteries of free grace, divine sove
reignty, the decrees, and all things fairly and
scripturally deducible from them, is not tied up
to human and extravagant theories of inability,
original sin, and the extent of the atonement.
We thank God for the hatred of oppression,
and the desire to see the golden rule nnitrer
sally applied which our Presbyterianism has
infused into us. We thank God that we - can
have confidence in our brethren, that they will
be, brought to coincide in all wise measures for
the advancement of our Zion, without any undue
pressure of personal influence or eeclesiastical
authority; that while we proceed with no un
seemly baste in serious changes in our polity,
we yet, when Providence indicates the duty,
can peacefully and harmoniously dispense with
methods familiar and dear to us, which it cost
us everything once to adhere to, and which it
costs us now much to abandon.
These are the principles we behold and ad
mire in our church. For the defence of these
we once more hang out our banners.
WAR
Our age is one in which the peaceful principles
of the Christian religion are, to a considerable ex
tent, disregarded and violated. The great mili
tary nation of Europe, France, has found in Napo
leon a competent and sympathizing head. Victory,
supremacy, territorial extension, at the hazard or
the actual cost of war, are the familiar ideas of
that nation of soldiers, with its standing army of
half.a-million of men, and its rapidly increasing ,
navy and system of sea-board fortifications.
Hence, surrounding nations feel called upon in
self defence to make similar preparations. 'Vo
lunteers are undergoing drill, millions are voted
for defence, journalists and reviewers are discuss
ing military problems, and the minds, and ener
gies of men are directed to warlike channels.
True, there are phases in this military drama,
as the expedition of Garibaldi, and the interven
tion in Syria, which we cannot contemplate without
having our feelings as republicans, or even as
Christians, warmly enlisted. There are evils so
deeply seated in the body politic, that a war of
liberation with all- its horrors and abominations
must be welcomed as a salutary relief. Humanity
itself demands that the sword be drawn and held
in terrar•em over the heads of brutal and outrageous
tribes, or even used upon their person& 'But
with all this, it must not be forgotten, that war in
itself considered is utterly foreign to the spirit of
the Gospel. The Christian cannot but deplore its
existence, and pray earnestly for its utter cessation
upon the earth. As one of the clearest and most
melancholy results of the fall, he longs for its re
moval. He wishes our earth to be purged of its
enmities, its, inhumanities, its barbaric tendencies.
He wishes 'man to be at peace with his fellow-man.
For the culture of piety in the individual soul, for
retirement and communion with God, the camp
furnishes no suitable opportunity, and the warlike
spirit is no congenial atmosphere. Such instances
as Hcdley Vicars, Henry Havelock, and Col. Gar
diner, are wonderful exception& The business of
Christianity among men is one of peace. Build
ing churches, carrying the word of life from house
to house, sanctifying the Sabbath, sending the
missionary band abroad to remote parts of the
earth, are operations which call for peace, and
which are intercepted and damaged by war, quite
as much as any of the commercial interests of the
world, while to the Christian they are far more
precious. They belong to the civilization of the
race, which thus is put in jeopardy and retarded.
They form its high, essential, life-giving element,
which is hence, emphatically opposed to war.
There are, in fact, few expectations more de
-
ugh tful to the Christian, than that there shall be
peace `on earth. Yes, from the midst of battle
smoke, and confused noise of the warrior, he looks
forward with joy and confidence to the prophetic
era when swords shall be beaten into ploughshares,
and spears into pruning hooks, when nation shall
not lift up the sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more. That time shall come
to our convulsed and distracted world. The war
trumpet's last note shall die away upon the air,
the earth shall tremble for the last time beneath
the rush of armed squadrons charging on the foe,
the heavens shall be rent for the last time by the
roar of cannon, and the' sea for the last time im
purpled with the blood of her slain. For the last
time the cold moon shall unveil her face and look
down upon the horrors of yesterday's field of
battle.
Let us pray and labor for this happy consum
mation.`'.4
let us keep our souls pure from the
taint of wailike"tastes; let us reserve our military
spirit for the service ofthe Prince of Peace ; let us
rally around the standarctof, his kingdom, the ban
ner of the cross; let us wield those weapons of
warfare which are not carnal Ttirtiqghty through.
God, to the pulling down of strongh4ls, casting
down imaginations, and every high thior, that ex
alteth itself against the knowledge of God, bringing
into captivity every thought to the 'obediencwof
Christ. Let us clothe ourselves in the complete
armor of the Christian, let us in the service of our
King, endure hardness as good soldiers, not en
tangling ourselves with the affairs of this - life; let
our ambition rise above the hero names of earth,
to his, who, at the end could say "I have fought
a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept
the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a
crown of life which the Lord, the righteous Judge,
shall give me at that day."
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN ALMA-
NAC FOR 1861
This annual increases in value from year to
year. it presents, in a portable and compen
dious form, sufficient information upon the con
dition and various operations of our church, to
make it an important auxiliary in training the
people to intelligent co-operation and sympathy
as members of the same body. Besides, there
are valuable ecclesiastical statistics of other bo
dies and countries. Rendering good for evil,
it presents a jester view of the American Tract
Society, than their almanac does of us. Among
the cuts are two of our churches, the First of
Owego and the First of,Syracuse, in which the
Assembly of 1.861 is to meet. We are glad
also to see a place given to Tabor Chapel, one'
of the most successsful city mission enterprises
in our own or any church at the present time.
We have no doubt of the success of the alma
nac. Sessions should purchase it in quantities
and distribute it among the people. For fifty
copies oemore, the price is four emits each.
A,uttritan grtolltterian and 6stntoet tgrangeliot,
THE UTICA ORPHAN ASYLUM.
PROFESSOR UPSON'S ADDRESS.
We have been beeai deeply interested in the peru
sal of this address, which, in very neat form, has
been placed upon our table. The occasion
which called,it forth was the laying of the cor
ner-stone of the new structure for the 'Utica
Asylum, May 30th, 1860. Professor Upson,
who holds the chair of Rhetoric in Hamilton
College, is not led astray, as one in his literary
position might naturally be, into the generali
ties of fine writing or lofty declamation, but
consents to, perform the less distinguished part
of "Old Mortality," in reviving the memories
"especially of the excellent women who - were eon
nected with the origin of the institution; and
for the tenderness and affectionate diligence he
has Shown in the work, he: deserved the best
thanks of his hearers.
It appears that, more than thirty years ago,
three young children were left destitute orphans
in what was then the village of Utica. Instead
of turning them over to the existing institutions
for the accommodation . of paupers, "a noble wo
man," Mrs. Sophia Bagg, contrived to direct
the industry of the ladies of the sewing-cirele to
their support, following it up with the sugges
tion of the founding of an asylum. This was
the real beginning of the 'Utica Orphan Asylum.
The proceeds of these ladies' industry with the
needle and thimble,, accumulated in a fond,
which reached the sum of $5,000, on the inte
rest of which the Asylum was largely dependent
for its relief'from embarrassment when other re
sources were less abundant. Prof Upson ac
cordingly proposes, that the coat of arms and
seal of the Asylum be a thimble and needle.
All this work was perform'ed, he says, in a most
unobtrusive manner, the name of the charity not
being found - in the most complete annals of the
county published since its establishment Prof.
Upson carefully brings to mind, a number of gifts
from benevolent' men to the institution, including
a legacy of MOSES BAGG, husband of the lady
already named, a handsome present from a 'FIRE
COXPANY in Utica, a legacy from Dr. SAMUEL
HEAL, of,Syracuse,. of $2,500, and gifts from
others whose names, from motives of
_delicacy,
are suppressed: Prof. Upson says: "Little
children have, for this Asylum, made their first
sacrifices. The,,teachers and scholars in the
public- schools have more than once remembered
this charity. And not children only, but the
extremely old have here been blessed themselves
in blessing other&" It Seems that Prof Upson
himself performed a part in this work, which
drew so many willing co-laborers, long before
the date of his addres& He says: "Well do I
remember, it used to be the custom for the boys,
who belonged to the household where the so
ciety,last met, to carry the huge basket which
contained the work to the next place of meet
ing. And if I may be allowed to speak froirt
experience, the tug that one boy had in drag
ging that basket, gives him, and gives all the
boys who tagged with him, a right to `glorify'
a little here to-day."
But the immediate occasion of the ceremony
of the day, was the princely bequest of ALFRED
MUNSON, one of the self-made men of. Utica, left
to the Asylum in. 1854,: amounting to $34,000,
conditioned on the raising of $lO,OOO by the citi
zens, the whole to be applied to the purchase
of ground and the erection of a suitable build
ing for the Asylum.. The _conditions were ful-t
filled, and the work thus happily inaugurated
on the day of the address. We have deemed it
not inappropriate to introduce theie facts to the
notice of our readers. They convey a lesson of
great encourageinent to those who labor, as yet
among the obscure beginnings of things.- They
are a vindication of Ladies' Sewing Circles
from the objections made against them by fault
finding people. They illustrate the great re
sults which, in the providence of God, may un
expectedly grow from .husuble but pious endea
vors. We would like to quote several para
graphs of the closing portion of Prot Upson's
address, but must content ourselves with the
following:
God be thanked that he has planted this Asy
lum here—that so many of us,- in our'daily life,
will be led past this spot. And what a splendid
panorama sweeps around us here I Yonder is
that valley with its river, mighty indeed- by its
endless historic associations; just beyond the
hills, so near that, in a tefracted light, they
might almost be seen, are those we love to be
lieve the most beautiful falls of water in the
world; before us stands that grandest of the
munificent charities of our State, which, by its
position, we are permitted to call our own ; and
moving to the left, yonder on the distant bills,
rises a place of learning where, through one of
its leadiag departments of education, your be , -
neficence, on all public occasions, shall forever
continue 'to speak; and just behind us here,
more sacred than-'all, lies in quiet beauty the
place of rest of those we love, the rest for all
of us at last. And now,, here, we are about to
place a memorial that shall be a pearl in this
circlet df emeralds, a pearl less costly and more
pure, less brilliant but more attractive, unob
trusive, and therefore beautiful, and in the-spi
rit which it inspires, like that "pearl of, great
price," it shall be a fit Central glory of this
matchless siene—a memorial of the past, a per
petual incentive for the future.
I must believe that ."ministering spirits" are
here; that the noble-hearted woman who founded
this charity in prayer and labor is at this mo
ment here; that the generous benefactor whose
name in his life was an earnest of the success of
any thing he undertook, strengthens us today;.
4t the fathers and the mothers, and the grand
pe,,ents of some of us are looking down upon
us dcWl, Let us consecrate this building to
their memory I Let us. baptize it with their
love! Let us, Christians all, of every name,
unite in devoting it forever to the glory of Je
sus Christ an 4 his cross
, TRZVRIZE 330 °K.
Letters have bef addressed to the Secretary
of the Presbyterian }Wootton Committee, Phi
ladelphia, asking whether i manuscripts sent in
competition for the prize done hundred dollars,
offered by a friend of tbeCommittee for a book
for the Sabbath School, The returned, if un
successful—and also whethop one book only-will
be accepted?
,
To these inquiries we wornreply, that un
successful manuscripts mill I considered the
property of the writers, and heat their dis
ii
posal; and, should the Conwittee desire to
publish more than one of the •',. i nscripts•(as
it is probable they may) they will imrimnicate
with the author,
• , ,
THE SOUTHERN' PRESS ' c. RUN.
Our discussion with this paper, invited by it
self, and engaged in with no eagernetlibu our part,
has recently elicited from it the'follO 'I +g remark:
We wish our contemporary ilistine . to under
stand we did not intend to sneer at.' e prayers of
our New School brethren in our be.. lf.
There is some inkling of , remorse e Elea , in these
words, and we accept them as well-iutentioned.
..,
We may regard them as marking `a progress on
the part of some of our Old School brethren, to
wards a hearty. recognition of 'the worth of the
prayers of the ¶'New School" in their behalf,
which will be fully, developed. a considerable pe
riod, we hope, before the ;millenium. We are
happy to believe,linweier, that - Soine . of our bre
thren have advancleA f further in that direction than
the mere cold disisiowel of contempt alcove quoted.
MR. DORMAN'S EXAMINATION
We have certainly no desire to magnify, and
..
take no pleasure indexhibiting the..evidences of
the remissness of °dr Congregational - brethren, in
'
guarding the ortho4 ox pulpits of New-England,
i
from the entrance 5 Lf gross and dangerous doctri
nal errors. But askreliable chroniclers of grave
movements in the eligions world, we feel bound
iito lay before our rea ers such definite and uncon=
tradicted statements of' marked instances of this
remissness, as the folkiwing account of .111 - r. Dor
man's Examinatione . frOta a participant; who
communicates it to f.4e Boston Congregationalist.
It is calculated to fill.ekery friend 'of truth, and
I
every lover of the triA welfare of the New England
1
Churches, with deep egret and anxiety. Surely
the ancient standard4earers of orthodoxy in that
region must be losi k their serises, - to consent to
ordain a man to the ,igh office of the;ministry,
upon the totally in, ,t • ate and empty pretexts
-
given below. The d - !Pi— saye l ...,
......
During the early I) rt of the 4gemination, Mr.
Dorman appeared tole Ally Well; during the latter
'k t,
part, far otherwise. le many of the leading ques
tions, his answers v*e very equivocal, certainly
"non-Committal." I remember distinctly the ques
tions I put to him, ana his answers thereto, almost
word for word.. I will give them in Substance,
and nearly verbatim, iiithout the quotation marks.
What is election?.•Anativer.—l suppose God's
choosing some. Why. does God .choose some?
Answer.---I cannot- tell. I sometimes lean to the
opinion that God cheeses some for reasons best
known to hiniself, and sometimes I lean to the
opinion that God, chothes whom He does because
He foresees that they will =repent and believe in
Christ; and, therefore He elects, them. I read
the article in the o . Confession of Faith" of the
church in Manchester, on election, and asked the
candidate hovi he would expound it in a sermon,
should his people request him to preach on this
doctrine. Answer.—t , don't knovr; lam study
ing the Bible to find got.. With regard to proba
tion,, .
I asked him, do you, or do you 1104 believe
.
that the probation of, all men ends at death?
Answer.—l cannot tell. God will giVe all men
a fair chance. Faith in Christ is necessary to sal
vatiUn. There may he some, I sometimes think,
who, not hating a sufficient knowledge of .Christ
in this world, will have - un offer of pardon after
death: lam not' satisfied on this subject. About
it I have my doubts. - Rdon't know that :any to
whom I may ever preach- in this land, will be
among the number of those who have another
chance after- death... ',asked, On what texts do
you ground the belief of,a probation,for any, after
death? Answer. --"4 manner of sin and bias
phemy shall' be forgiven unto men; but the bias
phemy.against the Holy Ghost shall not be for
given unto men," &c.
The license to preach, given to him, by (I think)
the Third Presbytery of New York, which specifies
that he, in his examination by that body, assented
to the "Confession of-Faith,' was read, when the
Moderator asked him, Do you now believe as you
did at the time this license was given to you?
Answer.—l don't know but I do. Do you believe,
in' the main, in the Assembly's Catechism? An
swe.r.-1' don't know. I don't know much about
the Catechism. With regarclto the " Perseverance
of the Saints," thecandidate was equivocal, unde
termined in his answers.' 'All through the exami
nation, the candidate w&s, ittielmect to many lead
ing, fundamental 'doctrThes, Thus indefinite in his
statements; seldom answering a question definitely,
distinctly. • •
With the great dissatisfaction with Mt. Dor
man's doctrinal views, it.was . believed that Mr.
Dorman must be areal Qhfistian, and might be
come sound, while a refusaUto - settle Mr. Dorman
might be the occasion of a rupture among the peo
ple, as, they would, most likely, either call another
council, or get him into 'the ministry as their pas
tor in some other way; and so it was considered
expedient by a majority of the council to ordain
and install him.
The Moderator, (Rev. Dr. Hawes,) gave the
Charge to the Pastor, after the Ordaining Prayer,
in which, at the outset, he frankly told, Mr. Dor
man that the council httd manydifficulties i 'and
were not satisfied with his views on some points,
while he was believed to ; be a goodonan; he then
entreated him to be rooted in "the faith once de
livered to the saints."
I may say, that in the council that ordained Mr.
Dorman, there were ineruof the New Maven and
East Windsor Schools of Pivinity, and between
them, there was no diversity Of opinion, touching
the examination of Mr. tforman.
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THE LATE DR. HOUGHTON.
Our deceased colleag* was a graduate of the
University of Vermont, ,His name and facts con
nected with his history, appear in the carefully
prepared necrology of, that institution, for the year
which .has closed. We copy from the report of
the commencement Troceedings in the Virmont
Chronicle.
REV• DANIEL CLAY• HOUGHTON, •D. D., of the
Class of 1840, died in Philadelphia, July Bth, in
the 46th year of his age. Dr. Houghton was ,a
native of Lyndon, in this State. During his mi
nority he learned the printer's trade under, Dr.
Luther. Jewett, of St. Johnsbury, and was fitted
for college at Bradford, Vt. After he graduated
he taught a few years in Western New York, and
then entered the ministry in connection .with the
Methodist Episcopal Clireh. If not the erigina
ter, he was one of the earliest and most active in
struments in founding 'and endowing Genesee
College in 'Jima, N. Y., T iein g most of the funds
by his own efforts. He wasoffered the Presidency
in this College, but declined it and accepted the
Professorship of Moral and Intellectual Philoso
phy, at the same time acting as Financial Agent.
He subsequently transferred his church relation
ship from the. Methodist to the Presbyterian
church, and was appointed Editor of the Genesee
Evangelist. When this was united with the Ame
rican Presbyterian at . Philadelphia, he became the
responsible Editor - of the united papers. He was
an excellent scholar, and a man of great energy
and power.
"OUR' QUARTERLY."
Under this title the Central Christian Herald,
the organ of our church id Cincinnati, cordially wel
comes the late-admirable number of the Presbyte
rian Quarterly Review. We cannot forbear quoting
its appreciative and spontaneous notice, both of the
Review and of our friendtr. Wallace, the editor.
The Review is gaining rapidly in thp estimation of
our own journals and of the exponents of opinion
in•and out 'of the Church. ' - -
OUR QUARTERLY
Number Thirty-three of The Presbyterian Quar
terly Review, is on our table. For eight years . our
indefatigable brotber,Reir. B. J. Wallace, has per
severed amid many discodragernents, and now, by
patient continuance, hard work, and the blessink
of dod, is enabled to enter upon the 'ninth volume
of the works it is
_time that his labors in this, de
partment were• mere„ highly appreciated, tied the,
cireulation of the RevieW made more general in
our Church. Dr. Wallace has special qualifica
tions for this deparment of labor. He is clear
headed—can see through a sophism at a glance.
He writes with a sharp pen, and uses no pale ink,
so that the reader always knows what he means.
He is independent, energetic, and warmly attached
to his Church. Hence, what ho regards as right,
for the good of theChurah and tlieglorYof God,
he asserts and maintains, with great fearlessness
and force, and , what he regards as wrong and in
jurious, he handles- without gloves. His - Book
Notices have been particularly candid and able.
His own articles on the history, principles, and
mission of our church, have been bold, vigorone,
and just.. We do not agree with Dr. Wallace in
all his views respecting Church Extension; 'hence
we take the greater pleasure in expressing our
mind freely as to the merits and claims of his Re
'view. It is the only publication of the kind which
has any sympathy for us as a church, is aCredit
to us, and ought to be more liberally sustained' by
COMMENCEMENT AT. TALE ;COLLEGE.
Newburg, N. Y., August 24, 1860.
As the details of -this anniversary-have been
given in various forms to the public, let me record,
„
froth my recollections, simply the spirit of the
occasion. Wednesday morning was severely warm,
but by 9 o'clock, A. M., Alumni Hall - wascrowded
with the sons of old Yale, the warmth within,
though of a more invigorating charadter, corre
sponding with the temperature without
PeL ah P• t, Ea.., t' . ' : 1 ' =' 780 ,
called to the chair i .. s.taitlO-st_Atsta...l:o_Bln)
ewey, the only unstirred T name of the class of
1787, graduating 73 yeais agol
Our attention was first and justly occupied with
some eulogistic notices, gracefully pronounced, on
the late Professor Goodrich, which, we believe,
were received with a serious and grateful impres
SiOn.
The class of 1810 was present, in strength; not
indeed of numbers, but of character and expressed
thought. With what interest we listened to every
word that fell from old Governor Ellsworth! "The
battle of life," he said with trembling voice and
lip, "the battle of life had been fought by himself
and his classmates, for weal or wo;" intimating
that, even on the part of the survivors, the great
result of their existence was already decided by
"those who had advineed so far on, the journey of
life." And how earnestly, but without ostentation,
and with an utterance redolent of the unspeakable
satisfaction with which, he rejoiced, did he declare
his Christian hope, as undmibtedly well founded
and vahiable beyond all price. And it thrilled
Other hearts with impressions of new confidence
in the Divine System, to hear the earnest and al
most triumphant testimony of those who had ob
served and experienced so much of what the world
could do, whether to bestow satisfactory good, or
blast the expectation of a better world. The eulogy
he pronounced upon his classniates, deceased and
living, was moving, by reason.of its evident truth
fulness and the warm and affectionate spirit that
gave it' life; whilst his sense of honor was evinced
by his earnest hope that the'class of 1810 had not
disgraced their Aline Mater.
Prof. S. F. B. Morse, of the same class, was re
ceived with applause, and his remarks, delivered
with some timidity, were listened to with appre
.
dation.
THE JUNG: : AND WHO SEtALI, COME A.FTER . HIM?
• When the class of 1820 was named, President
Woolsey was called forth, and'his appearance hailed
with flattering applause; and we remarked, with
gratification, that as often throughout-the exercises
as the President's name was brought . before an
audience, it' was greeted - with such prompt and
warm welcome as indicated a strong and living
popUlarity. In his brief remarks, he valiantly
declared . that =he did not feel old and did not mean
to, but expected, by a good Providence, to labor
'long in behalf of the valued interests committed
to his care. Dr. Bacon, of the same class, pleaded
to some confusion of thought when unexpectedly
called for, an assertion that was met by a-friendly
smile of unbelief. "And who," he said, "shall
come after the king?" ;'He paid graceful compli
ments to the king, and did not hesitate to declare
that he did feel old, giving us the impression that
he felt like a soldier somewhat wearied with the
strife and battered by the blows; but if good wishes
will effect it, for many years yet will he continue
the warfare. .To the call upon youtiger classes,
President Fisher and Rev. Dr. Butler responded.
The latter let off in a lively, small-beer fashion;
indeed the graphic description of the : bottle pop
ping out its cork, and• sending ferth Much froth,
and leaving but little sweet substantial sediment,
formed his acknowledged basis Of remarks. He
"revie"wed and recalled Freshman experience in a
highly felicitous manner, dolefully regretting the
lost taste of the molaises hogsheada rolled out in
old.times upon Long Wharf, and bravely singing
his pavans over Sophomore persecutions; whilst, for
the triumphant effect of his sportive address,'we
had the good-natured, laughing countenance of
Rev.' Dr. E. T. F., as a sure index, directly oppo
site. The representative of the classs of 1857,
who this year take their A.. M.'s, though the
youngest, crowed the loudest, and went off in * a
patriarchal strain, upon wives and children, giving
us hope that the patrons of old Yale were not in
the way of dying out. .
TELE ORATIONS OF DR. SPRAGUE. AND BUDGE
T13.04A§.
After this real flow- of soul, a procession was
formed to the Centre Church, to hear the winding
up address, delivered by Dr. Sprague- to the
Alumni. The oration was an amiable, but doubt
fess not an unju.stgloritcation'of Yale's Presidents
and Instructors, given forth in "a full, broad, glow
ing, genial style, that enlisted every ear, and se
cured gratified attention to the close. •
The oration of Judge Thomas before the Phi
Beta Kappa, on Wednesday night; was certainly a
masterpiece: It was delivered freshly and with
out the appearance of manuscript; but the pleasing
manner formed only the golden gates for a tri
umphant procession of sturdy, substantial and
timely thought, wonderfully enlivened and embel
lished by natural, appropriate, playful, and effect
ive figure. The topic of the oration, was "Reserved
Forces," intellectual and moral, designed to work
the-same effect upon the, human mind, in making
moral and intellectual demonstrations, as the pre
sence of-some reliable Imperial Gnard, as a body
of reserve, would have'upon the mind of a general
in time .of battle, whose ready strength he may
detach to' every weakened point, and from whose
assured prowess he gains that anticipation of vic
tory, which enables him to - turn the last even
balanced scale to final success.
GRADUATING ORATIONS.
Thursday was, of course, the high day, about
which all the other exercises cluster, though, we
think, the more matured productions of older ora
tors and soholars.tend, unfairly to throw into the
shade, even the most creditable performances of
the, graduatino speakers. The exercises of Com.
men cement Day were 'prosecuted without coofusion
or delay of any kind, the various "ascendats" sue
ceeding each other readily and gracefully, and, as
fir as witnessed by the writer, At young orators
relenting themselves and deliverrag with com-:
Mendable self-possession and elocutio‘The sub
jects chosen were substantial and seasonble, and
were treated with an unusual amount of grave.;
thought,ti the almost total absence, from the .
writer's observation, of the playful and the lighter!'
efforts of wit, raillery or satire:
THE FATHERS OF GRADUATING SONS
A pleasing feature of 'this Commencement, and
one that enlisted the . friendhr sympathy of those
acquainted with the fact, was the number of fa
thers present to `witness: the gra(
among whom we observedthe Rev
of Nev. York, Rev. Dr. P. F ,
Rev,. J. M. Davis,' of Philadelpi
.HoW . different to them was the e(
1860 from all others! 'With who
from those of ordinary spectators
the young, manly'forms of their .
and: took their places Olt the stage, .Igin
career of life, and with hearts strung to different
emotions, thry listened to the first words and
:watched each gesture of the body and outbreak of
the soul: Not that these sons were better or more
preeionsi intrinsically, than others, but they were
their sons, whilst the tie of nature and association
bound them-together, and;gave tut one_pAsation_
of that crowning and
eventful day; and as each well performed his part
we feltcongratulating, not so much the pal
pable performers, as those who looked upon them
with such absorbing interest. Nor is such partial
concern a form of selfishness; it only prepares the
generous hearted parent to extend a warm appre
ciation towards every youth, as be measures, the
value of others by the large love he gives to, those
within the reach and demonstration of his own
peculiar fondness We cannot but reflect how in
calculable would be the loss to society and the
world; were those who minister in holy.things not
first taught hy the l'arge weights and measures of
'household experience, to understand and value the
sacredness of family affections , that from their
own parental life, they might 'transfer their esteem
and love to others, and labor to save souls that
Must be as precious to some others as their sons
and daughters are to themselves. Yea, from such
reflections we may gather fresh impressions of the
love of 'God to man; of His special fondness to
wards His people; who, as a father pitieth his
children, pities them that fear him who spares
them as'a man spareth his own son that serveth
him.
Of all the commencement exercises, not, the
least engaging and enjoyable are found in those
little intervals outside the halls, as the-proces
sion is being formed, or the dinner waited for,
when friends gather in little groups, or walk
thtough the mass, to meet here and there the
friendly face and the ready hand; the whole
crowd, as by constant turning and greeting, it
is kept in motion, presenting a continuous dis
solving view, till, as the last exercise is finished,
and, the last hOur of the social evening is struck,
each one goes forth again his own way, but with
his mind changed and his heart happily bur
dened; to persevere in, each duty of life, in pre
paration of.a meeting that shall know no end 1.
„W. W. F.
EDITOR'S TABLE.
A 6 AND PAMPHLETS:
THE DEATH THREATENED TO ADAM, with its
bearings on the annihilation'of the wicked. By'l.
Newton Brown, D. I?. Philadelphia , Smith, English
& Co. 16mo. 29 pp.
This is a seasonable and very able, discussion: of
a question which of Late has acquired great fill
portance. We would wish for the more extensive
usefulness of the missive that it had been couched
in a less formal, and more popular style; other
wise little is left to be wished for, in the thorough
13CM and ability
_with which this part of the sub
ject is handled.
THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY'S ALMANAC.
Boston, 1861. This is a. creditable production,
differing but little from the similar Work of the
New York. Society; one or two - artiCles on Slavery
and a hideous picture of the crowded deck of a
slave-ship being the new features. - At least we
find the Boston statement (dour benevolent oper
ations a facsimile, in error and defect, of the New
York exhibit. If our members feel any interest_
in knowing what our own' church is doing, even
in the most general way, let them 'patronize the
issue of our Publication Committee.
LADIES' HOME MAGazrwE.—Edited, by. T. S.
Arthur. and . Virginia F. Townsend. Phials., T.
S. Arthur - & Co., 323Wainut st. Vol 13,N0. 3.
September, 1860.
The LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. CC.K. V .
July, 1660. American Edition. No. LW. No. I.
Contents: Art. I. The - Missing Link and the
London Poor. 2. , Joseph Sealiger. 8. Work
men's Earnings and Savings. 4. The Cape and
South Africa. 5. Ary Seheffer. 6. Stonehenge.
7., Darwin's. Origin of Species. 8. The Conser
vative Reaction. 1
The foreaving concise enumeration of the con
tents of the present number is more convincing
thAn any labored commentary we. might write,
of the value of review literature. It is a fair
specimen of the variety , which characterizes every
number of the series of re-publication of which
this forms a part. Questions in Politics, Sopial
and Political Economy, Theology, The Pine Arts,
and Education, which can only be superficially
touched upon in the newspaper press, here under
go that calm consideration and, discussion best
calculated to ensure the formation of as.correct
judgment, and to elicit the truth. Reflecting
faithfully the impress of passing events upon the
minds of the thinking men of the day, these
Reviews form an invaluable' Companion to the
Newspaper. The newspaper has barely , time, to
record the transactions of the day; the review
notes the principles at work, and holds aloft the
lamp of reason, and experience. .In the present,
disturbed, state of the world, these publications
are deserving of eminent attention; and the dif
ferent principles represented by each Review afford
the seeder an invaluable means of comparison.
Each number is complete and consistent withit
; to
self. and is, therefore, far preferable any cow _
pilation -from various sources which unites letero
geneous articles and, combines inconsistent views.
The present number we obserie commences :a
volume, as also does Blackwood' s M agaz i ne , for
July, and we believe one or .two of the others,
thus rendering the present a desirable moment to
commence subscriptions.,
Price of one Review,,s3 a3nar. Price of the
four Revivra, $B. -"Blackwood? and ,the four
Reviews, SUL -
• CASSELLIS POPULAR - NiaIIRAL HISTORY.--
Part, 7. Hares and- Rabbit's, London and• New
York. Published. by Cassell, Niter - and•Galpiti
Park Buildings, -81 yark Row,.N.
13, LACK:WOOD: I S EDINEURG MAGAZINE.—No.
DX
August, 1860:-American Edition.
Vol.-II No. 2:. New Yorki`Pnblished by Leonard
Scott & Co., for sale in-Philada. by W. P. Zieber.
Contents: National Defences, ind Volunteers.--
Lord Macaulay and z Dundee. The Pursuit of
Venda Tepee. The great Earthquake at Lisbon.
Norman gyp. ficlair,/ Tait i 7 Wycliffe and the
lauguenoW'VerninVOtto Vadis. The Transition
State of aarJnAlian,Alllgre•
THE EDINBURG - R.rnEW. — No. CCXXVII.
July, 1860. American edition Vol. LIIL, No.
I. New York.! 'Leonard Scott & Co., 79 Fulton
W. B. Zieber,Thils4,, Contents of No.
krt. 1, Cheiplierian :the probable fall in the
A' Gold.- 2. Diaries and-Pmespondenee
•ge Rose. ' D'HausSonville's Union of
and Lorraine. 4. Sir R. Murchison's
reological Discoveries. Z. The' Patrimony
Peter. "6. 1)r. Vaughan's Revolutions in
History.- .7. Mrs. Grotes; Memoir of
Sheffer. , 8. Prince Dolgormilcow on Russia
and Serf Emancipation.. 9.- Correspondence of
Humboldt, and Varnhagen- von Ense. IQ. M.
Thiers' Seventeenth Volume. 11. Cardinal Mai's
Edition of. the Vatican Codes_-:12. Secret Voting
and Parliarnmitary ReforM; - -
THE AMEILIC4H THEOLOGrA.L 4EVIEW.-
August, 1860. New York. iind• Boston; New
York : J. N. Sherwood. Beston: Moore, Munroe
& Co:-
Contents of No:. , vit.': T.:Essays and Reviews.
Art. L President - Willard's Body of Divinity.
By Rev. J. P. Stestps,, P.. .Newark, N. J.
11. Jansenism and the Jansenists.
,By Rev. Lyman
Providence,. , jut. 'En g lish Lexi
cography. By Prof. Francis. A.; Marsh, Easton,
Pa. IV. Moses and 'the 'Geologists. By Rev.
W. Barrows, Beading, :Mass. ~V; :The . Spiritual
in Man the proper 'Object iof*".Ptilpit Address.
By Rev. N G. Clark, profesier - in'OM :University
of Vermont VI. Natural History. By Pro
fessor Chester' Y. VII.
Kurtz's Church. History:— 4ty, Jtev. Henry
Baird, Prof. in New York-University. t 11. Theo
logical and Literary Intelligeace. Literary
and Critical notice& of Book& , IV. Newu of the
Churches and of-Mission&
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.---DeVoted to - Lite
rature, Art, and Polities.- Septetriber,l.Sfto. Bos
ton : Ticknor & thiiiiember
is "Something about iristory. The writer re
garde Motley as the 'head" f his
: profession.
.-Hume and Gibben c receivelia just censure, though
Prescott, Macaulay, Bancroft, come in for their
share of depreciation. also. "A Day, with the
Dead," is an unseemly interweaving ofianir i t hful
with solemn topics, to say' nothing orikilings at
orthodox views' of the - Scriptures. Indeed, this
number of •the Atlantic iSmore than usually cha
racterized -bilhielt: hbatility. Dr.
Holmes in the
__ProfessWs ' story,- exhibits his
chronic aversion to ,the doctrine of total'depravity,
while the book critic 'goei out of his way in his
notice of the Autotiography of -Lediein order to
take the part; not in Uitiolli'af nien"Of genius who,
like tirns haie been, uilty of gross errors and
vices, as of the errors and vices themselves. He
is 'very much annoyedhtttthe stirplikririg°:revelations
of the moral delinquencied of great' men brought
to 'light in diaries, remains, 'end correspondence,
published „by indiSererit friends: - tines not
want his hero-worship - disturbed: v."Ahin is some
:times 'but a thwarted and misdirented Virtue."
It is spity, and indeed, iniltitr judgment; we have
nolbusiness to Intaw the vile . habits-rif Burns, and
the opium eating habits of Coleridge; and De
Quineey, and its ,pretty plainly intimated that
their'genius makes amends for their delinquencies,
and that theystand well-before - God, notivithstand
=ing them. All this a notice of a character
'remarkably free Of Such= faults; • "Culture" is a
noticeable article. Written by H.W. Emerson for
the pages of =the:Bostori Monthly, it -is to be re
garded as thelast, - and most per:feet resift of spe
crtlation -on the great humanitairianhobby. Many
admirable remarks - are made,hut what a dead fly
iii_theuintmentis thisi.said of-balls, wine-parties
_and -billiards, "a free - admission.% to, them on an
equal ifooting, if it were possible - (to a poor boy)
only once or twice, would be worth ten times its
cost, bpundeceiving him." Emerson does not
think it enough that our ~ f irst parents ate of the
tree of knowledge of good and ,evil;--we must be
,encouraged, to do- it, for=our own personal satis
faction and" inlightennient Againit the shallow
wisdom of all the Solaris of the ancient, or the
medern 4theiy, we would put, the _challenge of
Solomon: " Can a man take, live coals in his bosom
and not be burnt?"
This journal, we are pained to - believe, is in the
hands of a clique who cannot : possibly restrain
their profound hostiliky to evangelical truth from
frequent expression. _ We warn our readers against
introducing it into their families.
MENEM SELMA:ION & Co., New York, design
issuing in eight crown Bvo. - volumes, successively,
at'the rate-of-one a month, the valuable work of
Dean Mihnatylatin Christianity; 'lt- is to• be
at -the establishment
stereotyped s well-known of
Houghton & Co., Riveri3ide Press, Cam
bridge, a sufficienquarantewof the artistie beauty
of the Work. - It will be commended October Ist.
NORTH BROAD STREET ORITROH.
The services 'of this church will..hereafter be
held in the Commissioners' Hall coiner of 13th
and Spring Garden Streets, commencing next
Sabbath. The hours of service are 10i in the
morning, arid 71 in the eyenincr.
DAREAgetii.-4 cormspon eta ote Lo ndon Mmes'
under date'Cfic es, 'o follows
The Christians who remained in the city were still
in a most 'critical position', and dttrst not, at the peril
of their lives,.evea for•Mximment quit, the shelter they
bad obtained. • The greater number were either in the
Rritish Consolate,or int , Abd-el-Kader's house. At the
latter place there are said to be several hundreds of
persons,. who were with, great difficulty obtaining the
means of subsistenCe, to such degree, indeed, as to
be under idifinnent riak of itethal starvation.
`'Mt Brant the Consul,' haiin his own house, and
tVith'ldin s ,'among otliefs, - a 'Missionary, Mr. Robson,
And his wife, - the.Anstrian,CoAul, and a large number
of native Christians. • .•
- There had been over fottr hundred arrests at Da
mascus of persons ; implicated in ,the late horrible
massacres. Immediate trial was . had of all culprits,
, lmmediate trial •
and those found 'guilty were speedily executed. The
city was tranquil,
_and the`authority of the Sultan un
der the effect of rigorous measures, was again return
Collections itt
Now York.--A. little over five
thousand one hatnlreildollars havebeen collected for
the relief of our' unfortunatebrethren in Syria• It
will tiefoiwarded' by the Adriaiii: -
, •.
G0DE1 4 13,,..15 2 --.-Ecitttd_by _Mrs.
a . iiale. a. LXI. September,-1860.
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